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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : glibc-livepatches (SUSE-SU-2024:1805-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 198054

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:1805-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-2961: Fixed that the iconv() function in the GNU C Library may overflow the output buffer passed to it by up to 4 bytes when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set (bsc#1223019).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected glibc-livepatches package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1223019

http://www.nessus.org/u?b8913df9

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2961

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 198054

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1805-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2024

Updated: 10/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2961

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:glibc-livepatches

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/5/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (CosmicSting: Magento Arbitrary File Read (CVE-2024-34102) + PHP Buffer Overflow in the iconv() function of glibc (CVE-2024-2961))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2961

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1805-1